I fully agree. The real issue here is they printed 1 too many Mythic ice with EtR. Loki has a soft EtR but in combination with MoGo it's a hard EtR. While I think it may have been nicer to see Loki hit it makes sense to hit MoGo since Loki has been seeing significant play as a 1x in lots of HB decks. MoGo also provides the hard EtR without a standard subtype unlike Loki with makes it much more troublesome for runners to deal with.

It's unfortunate since a lot of rush strategies have used it historically, but it was probably the most potent of the few viable ways to make a targeted strike at rewiring.

Mumbad City Hall is pretty compelling with Consulting Visit already in the deck since it ups the number of Hard-Hitting News you can play at no additional influence cost. I'm dubious about spending a restricted spot on a 1-of.

I really like Boggs' attitude. At first it felt like he was pandering to the complainers, but he really has just embraced a healthy attitude of what makes "fair" and "fun" Netrunner, and explained those things in a thoughtful way. It's made me feel like the game is in good hands for sure.

Crim will come back. It’s taken a hard hit at the moment, but Boggs won’t want a faction that just flounders and is pointless. By the end of this cycle, and with the release of the next Deluxe expansion, crim will have what it needs.

hopefully! i'm certainly pumped for Siphon2.0, and I've got no doubt they're aware of crim's sorry state. My main point is that giving runners very strong, low-inf cards has been a consistent issue from FFG, and b/c crim's just sort of historically worse than the other 2 factions, issues with power level out-of-faction hit them super hard. Someone on here told me that they use inf based on how deep in that factions colour pie a card is and if that's true, they also need desperately to expand that to cover power level too. Crim's power level starts so far behind that they have to give crim these super-strong tools, except they're all 2-inf, so they just show up everywhere instead of helping out the bad crim decks that need them, and they end up MWL-ed

Yes, certainly agree there. Temujin being 2 inf dilutes the cards factional identity to it being an auto include in any deck. It may as well have been a neutral Card.

Boggs seems to be playing around with many more 4 inf, or even 5 inf cards lately. In the past that was a lot rarer. Hopefully that continues, and paints the lines between factions more clearly, with GOOD cards crossing factional lines for a sensible influence hit, and GREAT cards being by and large the signature of their own faction.

Somehow I doubt this will be the case. Rumor Mill is a niche enough card that I can't really imagine many factions would pay influence for it and within Anarch it has to compete against options like Hacktivist + Any other restricted card (i.e. Film Critic/Levy) and Employee Strike.

I could eat my words in a month or two when some bombshell corp unique card comes out, but with the current cardpool I don't think Rumor Mill has enough targets to be justifiable over its own opportunity cost. Until that happens, just keep that credit pool over 6 when passing priority.